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title: שַׂק — sack · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׂק (8242), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 48 times: sack. BDB 1906: n.m. sack sackcloth. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׂק

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«שַׂק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sack** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 48 times · **Key:** 8242 · **BDB:** שַׂק²

### Glosses

sackcloth (23); sackcloth(s) (15); of.sackcloth (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sack [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8242/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sack sackcloth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8242/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jos 9:4 sack sackcloth (v. SchwallyZAW xi (1891), 173 who conj. Egyptian origin; NH סַק sackcloth (rare); Assyrian šaḳḳu, sack (DlHWB 687 a), sackcloth (WklAltor. Forsch. vi. 44); Ethiopic ሠቅ = BH; Aramaic סַקָּא, ܣܰܩܳܐ; Gk. σάκκος LewyFremdw. 87);—abs. שׂ׳ Gn 37:34 +, שָׂ֑ק Je 48:37 +; sf. שַׂקִּי ψ 30:12, etc.; pl. שַׂקִּים Jos 9:4 +, sf. שַׂקֵּיהֶם Gn 42:35;— sack, for grain Gn 42:25, 27 (‖ אַמְתַּחַת), v 35(×2) (E), Jos 9:4 (JE), perhaps also Lv 11:32 (P). sackcloth: worn in mourning and humiliation (v. NowArch. i. 192 f. SACookEncy. Bib. s.v.), either loose garment like sack, or piece of similar material (of rough, dark hair), fastened round body: put (שִׂים) on loins Gn 37:34 (J), 1 K 20:31, on (bare) flesh 21:27 2 K 6:30, cf. Je 48:37 Jb 16:15 (c. תָּפַר); וְהַעֲלֵיתִי עַל־כָּל־מָתְנַיִם שׂ׳ Am 8:10; usually חָגַר שַק 2 S 3:31 Is 15:3; 22:12, cf. 3:24, Je 4:8; 6:26; 49:3 Ez 7:18; 27:31 1 K 20:32 Jo 1:8 La 2:10; כִּסָּה בַּשּׂ׳ 2 K 19:1, 2 = Is 37:1, 2, Jon 3:6, 8 1 Ch 21:16, fig. of heavens (cf. קָדַר), שׂ׳ אָשִׂים כְּסוּתָם Is 50:3; late לָבַשׁ שׂ׳ put on sackcloth Jon 3:5 Est 4:1, cf. v:2 ψ 35:13; 69:12; בְּצוֹם וְשׂ׳ Ne 9:1, cf. Dn 9:3; פִּתַּח שׂ׳ loosen sackcloth Is 20:2 (+ מֵעַל), ψ 30:12 (opp. שִׂמְחָה), הֵסִיר שׂ׳ מֵעַל Est 4:4. same garment (or material) spread out (to lie on), 2 S 21:10 (c. הִטָּה), Is 58:5 (c. הִצִּיעַ), cf. Est 4:3; וַיִּשְׁכַּב בַּשׂ׳ 1 K 21:27, לִינוּ בַּשּׂ׳ Jo 1:13.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׂק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8242/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 50:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/)

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אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְשַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים כְּסוּתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* I.clothe \[the\].heavens darkness and sackcloth I.make covering their

*JPS 1917:* I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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[Joel 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.8/)

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אֱלִ֕י כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת־שַׂ֖ק עַל־בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* wail like a.virgin girded of.sackcloth on the.husband her.youth(s) her

*JPS 1917:* Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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